about the idea that he's quote out of control on the campaign trail. and lebron james goes quiet for a big chunk of the fourth quarter, as those creeky old boston celtics swing their canes and beat back the heat on their home floor in miami. the question is, can lebron come up with the performance he'll need in boston save his season. "way too early" for this. hello, good morning, i'm willie geist, this is "way too early," show that's lost any number of recall votes, by you, the viewers and somehow remains on the air. glad you're watching us on msnbc or listening live on sirius xm radio, shoot me an email or tweet me, let me know what you're doing up at this hour or do what seven-foot tall men everywhere do, text the word awake followed by your response to 622639, we'll read the best responses later in the show.

the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, june 6th, the 68th anniversary of the d-day invasion. there's a lot to tell you about. including more from bill clinton as he explains some of his recent statements ostensibly in support of president obama. plus, tom barrett, the democrat running against scott walker last night is slapped, look at that. by one of his own supporters, after his concession speech. we'll tell you what's going on here a bill later in the show. first let's get to the news, live at 5:30 a.m. 30 rock in new york city. wisconsin governor scott walk certificate back on the job after a decisive win in yesterday's closely-watched recall election. the race was called less than an hour after the polls closed with the republican incumbent taking in at least 53% of the vote with 99% of precincts now reporting. he beat democratic challenger milwaukee mayor tom barrett by seven points. walker supporters say the vote strengthens the governor's

conservative agenda, includes a divisive member, the issue that sparked the effort by union leaders to remove walker from office months after he was sworn in the two candidates spoke after the results came in last night. >> we'll renew our commitment to help small businesses grow jobs in the state. we'll renew our commitment to help grow the quality of life for all of our citizens. both those who voted for me, and those who voted for someone else. because tomorrow, tomorrow is the day after the election. and tomorrow we are no longer opponents, tomorrow we are one as wisconsinites, so together we can move wisconsin forward. >> we are a state that has been deeply divided. and it is up to all of us, our side, and their side, to listen. to listen to each other.

and to try to do what's right for everyone in this state. >> it is my hope that while we have lively debates, a lively discourse, which is healthy in any democracy, that those who are victorious tonight, as well as those of us who are not victorious tonight, can at the end of the day, do what is right for wisconsin families. >> in addition to the governor's race, republicans beat back recall challenges for four other offices as well. both the lieutenant governor and the state senate majority leader kept their jobs. votes being counted in another state senate race that will determine control of that chamber. the results from wisconsin also providing an unofficial preview to november's presidential election. according to exit polls, wisconsin voters preferred president obama over mitt romney by a margin of 51% to 44%. more voters say president obama better suited to improve the economy and when asked who is better at helping the middle class, voters favored president

obama by nine points over mitt romney. although the democrats lost elections on the state level, the obama campaign says republicans should be worried come this november. obama senior adviser david axelrod tweeted bad night in boston, wisconsin raises big questions for mitt. mitt romney disagreed, tweeted congratulate scott walker for his victory in wisconsin, tonight's results will echo beyond the borders of wisconsin. let's look at what happened last night, chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen joining us extra early this morning from d.c. mike, thanks so much for being with us. >> well good morning, willie, we're not going to recall willie, we'll re-elect willie. >> turn it around for me this morning, seven-point margin, 53-46, that lines up pretty nicely with what some of the polls told us. what happened last night? >> well, it did, but voters really slapped the democrats and the unions.

this number was what the polls indicated. but a little outside. we've been thinking four, five points and closing. seven is the most we could have thought. we now have ten swing states in the presidential elections. we've been focusing on nine states where both sides sort of agreed what the terrain is, now we can look for both of them to spend money in wisconsin. i don't know what david axelrod is talking about in his tweets. it was not a good night for chicago. it was a much better night for boston. you saw it in the fact that mitt romney put out that statement that you just read, we got an emailed statement from the wisconsin state director of the obama for america campaign. so what we're going to see is republicans claim a big psychological victory. this morning the republican national committee chairman is saying that republicans are going to be pouring resources into wisconsin. >> mike, we saw the tweets and emails almost immediately.

even before actually the results were made official. this was not a victory for scott walker, but a victory for citizens united. those tweets coming from democrats, of course. more than $66 million spent on this race, a lot of it coming from outside. governor walker had a huge financial edge, something like 7-1. was this a lot to do about what's happening in the country with monday any and politics? >> that's very astute. that's another way that this is a preview of november. that we're seeing as we did in the primaries, the outside money can make a huge difference. that's the obama campaign's biggest worry in the months ahead. politico added it up and found that the republicans will have $1 billion in budgeted outside spending. so not counting the republican party or the romney campaign. that's two to three times what democrats are going to have. it can make a real difference here. now it's possible the republicans are eventually going

to decide wisconsin, just isn't going to work. we saw in the exit poll that you put up, the voters were for obama. there was very mixed results for scott walker. he lost women, he lost people under 30. he won independents, but lost moderates. i'm not sure how they split baseball on that one. but this was a state that obama won big. but there was nip and tuck, four years before, bush and kerry. a classic swing. both sides will play it for a while and make a calculation about whether it's really doable. >> we'll see what happens in november, for the moment it vaults scott walker way up in conservative circles and the republican party will see more of him. politico's mike allen up early for us. >> money is going to pour in for scott walker. thanks for the great coverage.

bill clinton, a top surrogate for president obama's re-election campaign in an interview with cnbc yesterday, some of the messaging may have been lost when it comes to the best way to deal with the bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. here's president clinton. >> i don't have any problem with extending all of it now, including the current spending levels, they're still pretty low, the government spending levels. but the real issue is not whether they should be extended for another few months, the real issue is whether the price the republican house will put on the extension is the permanent extension of the tax cuts. which i think is an error. >> all right. president obama has previously stated he only wants to extend the bush tax cuts for middle-class americans and not for the wealthy this time around. later, clinton's camp tried to clarify the comments. saying quote as president clinton has said many times before, he supported extending

all the cuts in 2010 as part of the budget agreement. but does not believe the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans should be extended again. he simply said he doubted a long-term agreement on spending cuts and revenues would be reached until after the election. clinton irked some obama supporters when he killed mitt romney's business record sterling and urged caution when looking at some work good and some work bad as it relates to bain capital. president clinton talked about that yesterday as well. >> the point i was trying to make is that you have examples of private equity doing good and bad things over the last decade. you can look, if you go in and there's a company that's not doing well, it's failing. and you buy it and you have to impose some economy there is and cut-backs because you're trying to turn it around so it can thrive in the economy, whether you succeed or fail, that's a good thing to do. >> president clinton's heavy presence in the news cycle,

prompted a piece in politico by roger simon, whose headline reads, bill clinton out of control on 2012. the former president pushed back. that he needed to step in line with the obama campaign. here he is last night. >> mr. simon may think i should be an employee of the campaign. but i'm not. i'm trying to help the president win re-election because i think he's done a better job than most people know. i've been aghast by all of this flutter about it. i don't think i should have to criticize romney personally to disagree with his politics. >> meanwhile, mitt romney spent the day yesterday in texas courting hispanic voters. romney touted the need for more jobs in the hispanic community saying the obama administration has not only failed to lower unemployment but has turned a certain former texas governor into a scapegoat. >> all he has for us right now of course are excusexcuses.

president george w. bush was at the white house for the unveiling of his painting last week, that was an easy -- [ applause ] >> he's always an easy target. he's blamed, although after three and a half years, this is obama's economy, not george bush's economy. >> romney expected to raise something like $15 million. still ahead on "way too early," 36-year-old kevin garnett continues to get it done in the playoffs. can lebron and d. wade win one on the road in boston? plus a mitt romney clip i think you're going to like. he tells the tale of the time he met a man who stood seven feet tall. just trust me on this one. that story and a check on whether, when "way too early" comes back.

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>> a slight chance of a storm, but for at most part, a little warmer in the atlantic states, still chilly up in new england, we've got warm air returning to the middle of the country. a lot of spots dealing with light rain this morning. not too bad down there. from vero beach to port st. lucie, a strong thunderstorm over the top of lake okeechobee, sliding over the east coast of florida. also around savannah, georgia, charleston, light rain through central georgia. showers along interstate 16, maybe even a heavy downpour. further north, if you're in central portions of north carolina, bring the umbrella, it looks like a wet morning around greensboro to asheboro, some of it drifting towards raleigh. there's a lot more good weather than bad. d.c. today 74, slight chance of afternoon showers and storms. most of the day will be cry. watching heavy rain today, possible around dallas, with some thunderstorms. but it's getting better. let's put it that way. starting to feel a little more like late spring. >> a lot of storm clouds on the map today, bill.

let's turn to sports, with chris bosh available for the fern time in the eastern conference final s the heat big three renunted. boston tried to steal one on the road. bosh checks into the game to ovation and chipped in right away. he backs into the paint, gets the bucket and the foul. bosh played 14 minutes, nine points. fourth quarter, celtics brandon bass goes in for the dunk, blocked by wade. rondo tips it out to pietrus, cuts the deficit. later in the fourth, lebron drives to the basket, but blocked by kevin garnett. more problems for lebron, misses a three that would have given miami the lead, they were down two right there. at 30 points in the game took three shots and scored two points in the final five minutes. under a minute to play, paul pierce, wow, step-back, nails the three over lebron's

outstretched hand. that put the celtics up four. that was the dagger. pierce 19 points, kevin garnett 26 points. as the celtics win game five, a huge win, 94-90, they play in boston tomorrow night up 3-2 in the series. with the chance to close out the miami heat. out west the thunder can move on to the nba finals with a win at home tonight against the san antonio spurs. baseball, mets traveling to d.c. to take on the nas, tied in the bottom of the 12th, bases looded for bryce harper, and he lines one into left field, it falls and scores the game-winning run. nationals win 7- 6, the first walkoff hit of bryce harper's career. the kid getting it done. the dodgers without the injured matt kemp facing the phillies on the road. kemp's replacement cog it again, herrera smokes cliff lee's pitch off the wall. bottom of the ninth, dodgers close it, kenly jensen gets

freddy goulis swinging. dodgers win 2-1. the l.a. dodgers have the best record in the majors while cliff lee, believe it or not, winless, still, for the phillies this season. with a win at the staples center tonight, the l.a. kings can sweep the devils. and capture their first stanley cup in franchise history. if the kings win, they would match the 1988 edmonton oilers for the best playoff record in modern history at 16-2. the game tonight at 8:00 on the nbc sports top of the hour on "morning joe," walker walks away with wisconsin. we'll break down what happened last night and what the recall vote means for the presidential election. and when we come back we'll huddle around the water cooler to watch a wisconsin voter add a little insult to injury for tom barrett after he lost the recall election. political slap-fighting.

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we told you at the top of the shore, that republican governor scott walker survived last night's recall election, beating his democratic challenger, tom barrett, 53-46%.

exit polling from last night's race indicates that despite walker's win, president obama still leads mitt romney in the state by seven percentage points if you want to sound smart today, eltell your friends that democrats have carried wisconsin in every presidential election since 1988. when michael dukakis defeated george h.w. bush. supported president obama over john mccain in 2008 by a margin of 56-42%. enough for the real news, let's huddle up around the water cooler to watch a angry local wisconsin mom react to milwaukee mayor tom barrett's loss. after his concession speech, mayor barrett went in to hug this woman, here's what he got instead. this smacked upside the face. a little back-story. apparently she wanted him to wait until everybody had voted, but he conceded before that. she didn't like that he conceded

prior to all the votes being counted. she slapped him how dare you concede, there are still people trying in to vote. he leaned in, she said, can i slap you? he said i would rather have a hug. he leans in for the hug, gets one in the grille. mitt romney out on the campaign trail as we told you, in fort worth, texas, he told the crowd a very tall tale. >> i met a guy yesterday, seven feet tall. yeah. handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall. name is rick miller. portland, oregon. and he started a business. of course you know it was in basketball. but it wasn't in basketball. i mean i figured he had to be in sports. but he wasn't in sport. his business is caring for seniors. >> figured he had to be in sport. he wasn't in sport. a good story about a guy he met who is seven feet tall, wasn't even in sport. first lady michelle obama stopped last night by letterman

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